For the 2014-2015 academic year I am on a research leave at the Ruhr-Universitat in Bochum, Germany. My project for the year is called Angels' Tongues and Witches' Curses: Jewish Women and Ritual Power in the Ancient World.

If you wish to speak to the Coordinator of the Jewish Studies program, please contact Annette Levine, who has taken the position for the year. She can be reached at alevine@ithaca.edu.

On this site, you can read information about my book, Ritual Practices to Gain Power, about my current courses, course policies, and about my family history (letters of historical interest, and columns written by my grandfather Richard Wilson, who was the Washington bureau chief for the Des Moines Register from 1933 to 1970).